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West Palm Beach native Jimmy Williams stands with his recreation of the iconic '50s palm beach hamburger stand, The Tropical Hut, behind his 1920s home in West Palm Beach on April 1, 2015. (Richard Graulich / The Palm Beach Post)

No McDonald’s ever elicited this kind of love.

West Palm Beach native Jimmy Williams, 77, has recreated an iconic neighborhood drive-in diner that was razed decades ago — in his backyard.

Williams, who graduated from Palm Beach High (now Dreyfoos School of the Arts) in 1956 and was a football teammate of Burt Reynolds‘, converted the one-car garage behind his West Palm Beach home into a version of the defunct Tropical Hut, which once stood across from the Flagler Memorial Bridge in West Palm Beach.

West Palm Beach native Jimmy Williams stands with his recreation of the iconic ’50s palm beach hamburger stand, The Tropical Hut, behind his 1920s home in West Palm Beach on April 1, 2015. (Richard Graulich / The Palm Beach Post)

And he has invited more than 150 classmates and contemporaries to visit as he “reopens” the Hut for a day on Wednesday. He will serve coffee and donuts donated by Cheney Bros. at lunchtime and Russo’s subs and Coca-Colas at dinner.

Williams is a renown local collector of Palm Beach County nostalgia and Americana. And he feels the epitome of that ‘50s teenage lifestyle was the Hut.

“We didn’t go to the mall — there were no malls!” Williams said. “We all went to the Hut.”

West Palm Beach native Jimmy Williams stands with his recreation of the iconic ’50s palm beach hamburger stand, The Tropical Hut, behind his 1920s home in West Palm Beach on April 1, 2015. (Richard Graulich / The Palm Beach Post)

From left to right, Larry Lester, class of 1948, Bill Brainard, class of 1940, Bill Walton, class of 1946 and Howard Wilburn, class of 1944, hold an image where The Hut restaurant use to be, now Phipps Pointe, in West Palm Beach. (Gary Coronado/The Palm Beach Post)

Decorations around the pool outside Jimmy Williams recreation of the iconic ’50s palm beach hamburger stand, The Tropical Hut, behind his 1920s home in West Palm Beach on April 1, 2015. (Richard Graulich / The Palm Beach Post)

The Hut used to be West Palm Beach’s top hangout for teens. (The Saturday Evening Post)